Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...It was then announced that four public Entrance Examinations should be held in future on July 8, November 1, February 1, and on the second Monday after Easter Day. And it was further notified that Students entering on the last days were expected to be prepared in the whole of the JEneid, and in fourteen Books of the Iliad. It was added, that at the Sizarship Examination the entire of the Iliad and of the JEneid would be required. It would appear from the Eutrance-book that the first general competitive examination for Sizarships was held in June, 1710. Up to the year 1709, Sizars were admitted singly at several periods of the year without competition. No distinction between the candidates who passed the Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Axts appears to have been made until the year 1751, when we find the name "Moderators" first applied to the most distinguished answerers. At the Michaelmas Examination of that year nine of the Students were honoured by this name. They all obtained Valde Benes with one Bene at most. One of them, Mr. Cooper, was awarded Optime as a judgment. This judgment was awarded by the Examiners in the middle of the last century more frequently than is commonly supposed. Undergraduate Course in Classics in 1759. 205 In 1759 there was a great advance made in the extension of the list of classical authors which were read by the Undergraduates. The following works were then omitted from the list: --Dugard's Dialogues of Lucian; Hero and Leander, with some of the Idyls of Theocritus; Epictetus Enchiridion, with the Tabula of Cebes; Velleius' Paterculus; Justin's History; and Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars. The first six books of the vEneid and the first eight books of the Iliad were supposed to have been...
